On the Road

The Rotary Club program was about our club involvement with the Mars Area High School and Pine Richland High School. There were students at the luncheon from those schools. The kids talked about the various kinds of service projects they sponsor as members of Rotaract (HS version of Rotary) and they presented us a check for $3,300 to go towad ARK of Heifer International (A program that provides livestock to villages in Europe and Asia that need them for survival. Each $5,000 gift helps about 30 families. Our club will add to their gift from the youth to complete the ARK (thus bringing our club's total to 3 such gifts.) I had a nice coversation with two the Rotarians at my table. The food is always good there and the people are up beat and positive.

Yesterday we finished our dance lessons at Butler County Community College. It was a good series of classes and we learned a lot -East Cost Swing, Jitterbug, and West Coast Swing. We were supposed to learn the Hustle too, but we never really caught on to that one. On the way home we almost hit a deer on Route 8. I swerved and hit the brakes and that worked. Fortunately there was no one behind me at the time.

Since we were driving to Butler for the afternoon, we planned to finally get Dee's social security card and address stuff corrected. While we waited at the SS office, I was able to listen to the two barbershop songs on my Ipod and follow along with the sheet music. (A good use of time while we waited.)Then, we stopped at the Butler Arts Center but the artist's show she wanted to see wasn't there. We had a nice dinner at Garfield's in the Mall and picked up another pedometer at Boscov's. On the way home, I was also able to pick up the cd of barbershop music (Barberpole Songs) from our director. I introduced Dee to our Chorus' director, Susan. She indicated she was happy tht I planned to go to the music camp (it's called Apple Corps) in June. Thet's where clubs from the Johnny Appleseed District send their members for training in barbershopping. Later, I was able to successfully put them on my Ipod, too, and create a cd for the car as well. That's going to make it so much easier to learn the music and the words.

It was a long day on the road, but we accocmplished all the things we wanted to and got home safely. God is good.